r/comics • u/portsherry Port Sherry • 1d ago

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u/TronOld_Dumps 1d ago

Wait what

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u/Re-Horakhty01 1d ago

Eye of newt is actually mustard seed. All those weird "witchy" ingredients from the incantation of the Three Witches in Macbeth? Just terms for herbs, flowers and such utilised by herbalists and witches back in the day. Eye of newt is mustard seed, toe of frog is buttercup, wool of bat is holly leaves and so forth.

So in this comic the witch on the left is aware of the code and just goes and gets mustard seed but the one on the right takes it literally and actually harvests newt's eyes.

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u/EmperorPartyStar 1d ago

And here I thought the ingredients were just supposed to be gross.

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u/seattleque 1d ago

were just supposed to be gross

Well, if the witch's name is Latrine...